Aaah…so, that’s why they weren’t invited to Good Friday services. It all makes sense now.

Ew.

Capitalism.

Donald Trump Jr. is also connected to multiple defense-tech ventures. He sits on the board of drone component company Unusual Machines. Forbes reported, “Unusual Machines is at least the second company that appears to have activated an advisory board specifically to give Trump a role” and “granting him shares worth millions—then announcing at least $15.2 million in military-linked orders, including a direct U.S. Army buy.”

What the actual fuck?

I heard they bounce.

I absolutely love the fact that all these companies are laying the legal groundwork to destroy intellectual property rights altogether. If they win enough of these cases, then every pirate on the open seas sails under a flag of amnesty.

Well, yeah. Why do you think they had to cut those programs? Wars aren’t cheap, people! Just be happy they aren’t bombing you! /s

Genndy Tartakovsky was right!

So…instead of AI doing the work…AI is going to be the Boss?

Fuck. That.

Another Trump supporter. Big surprise.

They were also offering sub-prime mortgages with extra long amortization terms to people who wouldn’t have otherwise qualified for a mortgage. It was basically on-par with pay-day loan scams. That’s what they were shifting around…the debts those people owed.

They were all thrown under the bus, so the lenders could make fast cash selling that debt amongst themselves, and then get bailed out by the government when that debt collapsed.

So, they knew this was coming, and set themselves up to benefit from it. That makes it a crime.

Same game as the 2008 economic crash. They could have bailed out the mortgage holders…but instead, they bailed out the lenders. The banks would have gotten paid either way, but instead of helping regular people…they just gave the money directly to the banks.

This should be interesting. Texas can’t even keep its own electric grid functioning all year round.

So…is this “Capital” in the room with us, right now? Is it wearing a name tag that says, “Hello. My name is Capital”?

Is Capital really running the whole system? Or is it the people we choose to put in charge of that system?

You’re still wrong. “Democracy” is not some floating, neutral mechanism that anyone can simply take over. It exists inside a state, and every state has a class character. Under capitalism, democracy operates through bourgeois property relations, bourgeois courts, bourgeois media, and bourgeois control of production.

I’m not the ones saying that…you are, with everything you just said in that comment. You are portraying “the state” as some separate entity that operates independently from the people within it. But, that isn’t true. Those people make up “the state”. It doesn’t exist without them. So, yes…if you put different people in those positions, you absolutely can “change the state”.

I’m not talking about how individual capitalists or socialists use democracy, but how democracy as a system functions in capitalism vs. socialism.

You may as well be saying, “It’s not who uses the hammer that makes it bad, but how they use it, that does.” My brother in Christ…the person using it decides how it’s used. FFS. You are talking in circles again without realizing you’re arguing against your point.

How is it “observably true” that it “works differently in socialism”? Do you not still elect people to represent you in government? Do you not still vote on issues that matter in your community? Are you not still expected to participate in the process, in order for it to function? Do you not still use it to replace leaders that don’t represent your views?

Nothing about democracy itself, fundamentally changes, just because you call it “socialist democracy” instead of “capitalist democracy”.

Democracy is class neutral. It is a tool. Nothing more. It is a system that can be structured in any number of ways, for a huge variety of different purposes. It is not an “it” that you can destroy and replace with another one. Democracy is just democracy. The easiest way to change how it is used, is to put someone else in charge of using it. And guess what? Democracy, by its very nature, allows you to do that. That’s literally what it’s for.

But, as long as you keep anthropomorphizing it with your own moral biases, you will never understand how to use it. It will always be a tool that inevitably gets used against you.

You keep describing it like it’s some kind of dragon in a cave, that needs to be defeated in order for you to be free. I’m trying to explain to you, that it is actually the very mechanism that can free you…as long as you understand how to use it for your own purposes.

(Edit…sorry, I thought you were the other guy. My point still stands)

Again, with the “two separate hammers” analogy. They are the same hammer. You just can just use it for more than one purpose. How you use it, determines whether it’s “good” or “bad”.

What happens after you’ve destroyed “capitalist democracy” and replaced it with “socialist democracy”…and then someone learns how to exploit the system again? Do you destroy it all over again, and make a new one? Again? And then again, again? And then again, again, again?

At some point, would you not realize that it’s not democracy that’s flawed? Or would you just keep destroying it over and over again, expecting different results?